HC Deb 19 January 1993 vol 217 cc147-9W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many three and four-year-olds were in nursery education for each local education authority at the latest available date.

Mr. Forth

The number of three and four-year-olds attending maintained nursery schools or nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1992 is shown in the following table.

Pupils aged 3 and 4 in maintained nursery schools and classes in England—January 1992
LEA Pupils
City 29
Camden 1,012
Greenwich 3,103

LEA Pupils
Hackney 2,212
Hammersmith 1,509
Islington 1,797
Kensington and Chelsea 826
Lambeth 2,294
Lewisham 2,569
Southwark 2,707
Tower Hamlets 2,687
Wandsworth 2,211
Westminster 1,049
Barking 1,750
Barnet 2,351
Bexley 1,127
Brent 2,390
Bromley 154
Croydon 1,159
Ealing 3,246
Enfield 1,484
Haringey 2,546
Harrow 958
Havering 247
Hillingdon 3,150
Hounslow 2,469
Kingston upon Thames 1,173
Merton 2.593
Newham 4,445
Redbridge 987
Richmond upon Thames 706
Sutton 1,684
Waltham Forest 2,502
Birmingham 10,342
Coventry 2,196
Dudley 2,881
Sandwell 4,640
Solihull 1,728
Walsall 4,223
Wolverhampton 3,936
Knowsley 2,477
Liverpool 6,350
St Helens 1,632
Sefton 2,470
Wirral 2,314
Bolton 3,057
Bury 1,446
Manchester 7,324
Oldham 2,386
Rochdale 2,018
Salford 3,315
Stockport 1,731
Tameside 2,504
Trafford 1,820
Wigan 2,125
Barnsley 2,951
Doncaster 3,326
Rotherham 2,974
Sheffield 5,720
Bradford 6,025
Calderdale 1,799
Kirklees 4,445
Leeds 8,276
Wakefield 4,322
Gateshead 1,798
Newcastle upon Tyne 2,995
North Tyneside 2,648
South Tyneside 2,225
Sunderland 3,137
Isles of Scilly 0
Avon 4,923
Bedfordshire 5,135
Berkshire 5,780
Buckinghamshire 2,694
Cambridgeshire 2,196
Cheshire 5,481
Cleveland 9,422
Cornwall 1,611
Cumbria 3,002
Derbyshire 8,950
Devon 2,743

LEA Pupils
Dorset 805
Durham 6,856
East Sussex 1,460
Essex 2,446
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1,993
Hereford and Worcester 1,274
Hertfordshire 8,422
Humberside 8,756
Isle of Wight 186
Kent 1,984
Lancashire 6,857
Leicestershire 5,372
Lincolnshire 1,349
Norfolk 855
North Yorkshire 3,505
Northamptonshire 2,915
Northumberland 2,833
Nottinghamshire 13,293
Oxfordshire 2,574
Shropshire 1,343
Somerset 239
Staffordshire 6,566
Suffolk 2,952
Surrey 2,857
Warwickshire 2,123
West Sussex 602
Wiltshire 561
England 329,597

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